Eugene, Oregon photographer Greg Vaughn was recently accepted for membership by the Society of American Travel Writers. Acceptance is based on a review by peer professionals of the applicant’s recently published work. SATW is the world’s largest professional organization of travel writers, photographers, editors and publicists.

Vaughn’s photos have appeared in National Geographic, Islands, Natural History, Sunset, Travel & Leisure, Outside and many other...

Photographers John Gateley and Joseph DeRenzo of Panoramics Northwest, Inc. were commissioned to document the painting of a Boeing 777 for the City of New York as the official NYC 2000 aircraft. World renowned artist and NYC resident Peter Max designed the paint scheme, which took the paint-crew five 24-hour days to apply and added more than 900 pounds to the aircraft.

With DeRenzo on board, the inaugural flight left Boeing Field on the morning of...

Allan Mandell of Portland, Oregon continues to pursue his specialty of garden photography in his new book Garden Retreats: Creating an Outdoor Sanctuary, which will be published by Chronicle Books in March.

This project, a collaboration with garden writer Barbara Ashmun, features gardens of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Mandell, whose work appears in magazines such as Fine Gardening, Sunset and Garden Design, received two 1999 Quill & Trowel Awards for Photography from the Garden Writers Association of America.

Digital capture is becoming a reality for the professional photographer. Montizambert Photography Inc. built its dream studio and went fully digital last July, a move made possible by Foveon's next-generation digital capture workstation.

With workflow much more streamlined than with traditional film photography, we are finding that clients are embracing the technology with us. My partner/brother Mark and I are also reclaiming previously outsourced revenue streams since going digital. These include fees for digital manipulation, color correcting, retouching and CMYK conversions, plus immediate sales on people shots.

Since we began advertising our digital capture capabilities, numerous projects we've secured have been directly attributable to the quick turnaround and impressive session capabilities of our new Foveon digital...

This issue started out with a focus on travel and location photography. As we began talking to location and travel photographers to research stories, we learned that many are focusing on portrait photography on location.

Technically, portraiture overlaps into several of our general themes, including location and studio photography. But more and more, portraiture offers location photographers a new source of income. And, more and more portrait photographers are facing new demands to photograph subjects out of the studio, on their subjects' home turf. To explore this trend, we've focused this issue on people and places. We hope you'll enjoy what's in store...